The use of a digital computer in monitoring the condition of the fetus during labor

Flowers, Charles E.; Hinkley, Clark M.; Hatcher, John W.

doi:10.1016/0002-9378(71)90966-5

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“…The clinical application of computers in the assessment of the labouring patient began in the late 1960s (Hon 1965;Flowers et al 1971;Crawford 1975). Pioneers relied on bulky and expensive main-frame computers situated away from the delivery suite.…”

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Feto‐maternal surveillance in labour: a new approach with an on‐line microcomputer

Tromans

Sheen

Beazley

1982

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Summary. A new method of real‐time computer surveillance during labour is described with a commercially available‘low‐cost’ microcomputer and integral video display unit (VDU). The fetal monitoring program gives accurate and reliable information on eight parameters of fetal and maternal wellbeing, four of which may be displayed simultaneously, with the facility of instant data recall. Emphasis is on simplicity of operation, and clarity of data display in the form of horizontal bar graphs updated at 5‐min intervals, with most recent information in numerical form. Flexibility of the system enables program modification with relative ease, and adaptation to two unmodified commercial electronic fetal monitors.

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Feto‐maternal surveillance in labour: a new approach with an on‐line microcomputer

Tromans

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Beazley

1982

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“…Althongh computer techniques are being widely used in many branches of medicine, in obstetrics these techniques have so far been limited to data collection for record purposes and to analysis of foetal heart rate patterns in labour [1,3]. It is our proposal that the data analysis and decision-making capabilities of the computer should be used in the antenatal clinic to relieve the obstetrician of that part of his work load concerned with the normal cases.…”

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Practical Application of Computer-Assisted Decision-Making in an Antenatal Clinic — A Feasibility Study

Anderson¹,

Llerena²,

Davidson³

et al. 1976

Methods Inf Med

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A feasibility study is described involving the use of a computer program in an antenatal clinic whose decisions were based on the observed policies of the group of obstetricians running that clinic. In 200 test cases the programme successfully detected all »at risk« cases at the first visit. Abnormalities appearing at later visits were all detected and appropriate investigations ordered by the programme. The programme ordered rather more investigations than the obstetrician and this difference has been investigated, in some detail with reference to the full blood count, glucose tolerance test and the ultrasonogram.Since all of the basic data in the proposed clinic would be collected by the clerical staff or midwives, a comparison was made between two midwives and an obstetrician in estimating fundal height. The small number of discrepancies found was not regarded as serious from the viewpoint of the proposed clinic.This preliminary study suggests that the technique described might play a useful part in some areas of ante-natal care by relieving the obstetricians of much of the workload associated with routine cases and enabling the midwife to play a larger role in ante-natal care.

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Computers in the Examining Room, the Delivery Room, and the Nursery

Jelovsek¹

1987

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The use of a digital computer in monitoring the condition of the fetus during labor

Cited by 11 publications

References 3 publications

Feto‐maternal surveillance in labour: a new approach with an on‐line microcomputer

Feto‐maternal surveillance in labour: a new approach with an on‐line microcomputer

Practical Application of Computer-Assisted Decision-Making in an Antenatal Clinic — A Feasibility Study

Computers in the Examining Room, the Delivery Room, and the Nursery

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